# Female breast nipple, why is it such a threat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 23, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759 "2003-11-23T00:48:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/61 "2003-11-29T17:36:42Z")
Oh, how I wish I’d hit “Submit Reply” just two minutes later than **spogga**! ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/62 "2003-11-29T18:33:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EasyPhil \* > \*\*A woman can have 95% of her breast exposed i.e. the nipple covered and that’s okay, though if 5% of it was exposed i.e. the nipple that would be considered obscene. A man can have his nipples exposed i.e. go bare chested and that’s not a problem. Why is a woman’s breast nipple so threatning? \*\* It was obscene, and illegal, for men to expose their nipples in pubic, even on public beaches, until the very late 1930’s. Life Magazine had a feature story around August 1938 about the very first American men to go topless on a beach, without being arrested. If nipples are obscene, then there is no good reason why it should be legal for men to expose their nipples in public. ---
**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/63 "2003-11-29T20:46:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pencilpusher \* > \*\*Personally I don’t find anything sexual about the human breast. They were put there for NURSING NOT SCREWING. :smack: \*\* I’m sorry to disagree with you. Especially since I agree that there is nothing wrong with nakid bresteseseses.🙂 But the female human breast is primarily a tool for sexual signalling. It is very badly designed for feeding babies. The engorged fatty tissue gets in the way of the babies nose and can make it dificult for the child to breath. Also, the nipple does not enlongate (not as much anyway as compared to other primates) enough to overcome this. [Take a look through here](http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/breasts.htm) > [@](#): > > A casual answer to the question, Why do women have breasts? is to nurse babies. However, most breast tissue is merely fat, not milk-producing tissue. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/64 "2003-11-29T21:38:52Z")
I seem to remember reading that a womans breasts evolved to be similar in shape to her buttocks. I’m not being funny here but it seems that the ORIGINAL way of copulation was ::erm:: doggy style but over the years we started doing IT the other way. …and so to attract us men… honestly! ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Danno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Danno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Danno)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/65 "2003-11-29T21:58:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Susanann \* > \*\*It was obscene, and illegal, for men to expose their nipples in pubic, even on public beaches, until the very late 1930’s. \*\* Paging Dr. Freud…Dr. Freud, you have a call on line one… ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/66 "2003-11-29T22:18:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pencilpusher \* > \*\*Personally I don’t find anything sexual about the human breast. They were put there for NURSING NOT SCREWING. :smack: \*\* Q. How are breasts like toy trains? A. They were meant for the kids, but it’s the fathers who are always playing with them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/67 "2003-11-29T22:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > A man can have his nipples exposed i.e. go bare chested and that’s not a problem. That’s a matter of opinion. The sight of a woman’s nipples in bublic would shock because it is unexpected, that doesn’t mean to say the sight of a man’s nipples is not just as obscene. It is IMO. ---
**Author:** ![ekow2kn3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@ekow2kn3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekow2kn3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759/68 "2003-12-06T20:24:27Z")
its like seeing someone ride a unicycle, they arent seen that often in public, but when they are, everyone stops to look… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-breast-nipple-why-is-it-such-a-threat/214759.md?page=3)